exaggeration

n.

[L. exaggeratio : cf. F. exagération.]

1. The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] «Exaggeration of sand.» Sir M. Hale.

2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.

No need of an exaggeration of what they saw.

I. Taylor.

3. (Paint.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

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n

Definition: overstatement, embellishment
Antonyms: minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment

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IN BRIEF: A statement that has been made to seem larger or greater than the truth.

The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain (1835-1910).

Quotes:

"Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness." - Voltaire

"Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans." - Source Unknown

"Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to." - Jonathan Swift

"Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated." - Susan Sontag

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else." - George Bernard Shaw

"I never exaggerate. I just remember big." - Chi Chi Rodriguez

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